St luke born

The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle and Evangelist Luke is the author of the Gospel of Luke, the companion of the Apostle Paul (Phil , 2 Tim ), and is numbered among the Seventy Apostles.

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He was a native of Syrian Antioch and a physician, and is the founder of iconography.

His emblem is the calf, the third symbolical beast mentioned by Ezekiel (), which is a symbol of Christ's sacrificial and priestly office, as pointed out by St.

Irenaeus. His feast days are celebrated on October 18; on April 22 with Apostles Nathaniel and Clement; on June 20 on which day his relics, among others, were translated to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople; and on January 4, the synaxis of the Seventy.

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Life

Saint Luke, was of Greek origin born in the Hellenistic city of Antioch, ^[